Legal Opinion
El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. Sun Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 5, 1983No. Nos. 77-1762, 77-2613 and 80-2404PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
The basic question presented by these consolidated appeals is whether a series of lease-sale agreements transferring rights to certain gas-bearing lands in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico are sales of natural gas in interstate commerce within the meaning of section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 717(b). Holding the agreements are not sales as defined by the Act, and are therefore beyond regulatory jurisdiction, we affirm the district court judgment to that effect and reverse the decision of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to the contrary.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- Phillips Petroleum Co. v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Ederal Power Commission v. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Interstate Natural Gas Co. v. Federal Power CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1965
- J. M. Huber Corporation v. William Harvey Denman and Jay Pumphrey, Trustees of the Estate of S. B. Burnett, DeceasedCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Wagner & Brown v. Anr Pipeline CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988
- El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. American Petrofina Co. of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1986
- South Central Regional Medical Center v. Press Ganey Associates, Inc.District Court, S.D. Mississippi · 2013
- United States Ex Rel. Johnson v. Shell Oil Co.District Court, E.D. Texas · 1998
- Former Fifth El Paso Natural Gas Company v. Sun Oil Company, Tenneco Oil Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Tenneco Oil Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983